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September 08, 2006
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science is seeking new proposals to support innovative, large-scale computational science projects under the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. Successful proposals will be given the use of substantial computer time and data storage on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world that reside in the department's scientific computing centers in Berkeley California, Argonne Illinois, Oak Ridge Tennessee, and Richland Washington. The deadline for submitting proposals for 2007 allocations is Friday, Sept. 15, 2006.
Launched in 2003, the INCITE program seeks computationally intensive, large-scale research projects and encourages proposals from universities, other research institutions and industry. Industry is specifically solicited to propose challenging problems that may be solved using high-performance computing systems. The Office of Science expects to make a small number of large awards. In 2005, 15 projects were awarded a total of 18 million processor-hours from the 43 proposals submitted, which requested a total of 95 million process-hours of computing time.
In 2007, the INCITE program will provide an opportunity for researchers to request time on the new leadership-class Cray supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Other Office of Science computing resources available for the INCITE program include the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) resources at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Hewlett-Packard massively parallel system at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the IBM Blue Gene/L system at Argonne National Laboratory. In the past, these advanced computers have not been commonly available to academia or the private sector.
INCITE proposals will be peer reviewed both in the area of proposed research and also for general scientific merit, comparing them with proposals in other disciplines. Current Department of Energy sponsorship is not required for this program. DOE plans to announce the awards in December. The call for proposals, including DOE policies for proprietary work, is available at http://hpc.science.doe.gov/.
The list of projects receiving allocations under INCITE in 2006 can be found at http://www.er.doe.gov/News_Information/News_Room/2006/INCITE/FY2006_INCITE_Award_Factsheet01312006final.pdf.
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